Rose Monica Bellucci

:o)))

She's a beauty, TT :)))))

What a gorgeous rose. Is this out now Karen

Yes Cinders, I think it's a new one by Meilland.

The pale outsides of the petals are actually whiter and the insides are darker than my photo shows...the contrast is beautiful.

I love it, will have to look out for that.

It has a wonderful fragrance too, J...

...now, where am I going to put it??? lol!

and beautiful it certainly is!

Saw her last week, Paul...and when she was still there today - it was meant to be!!! ;))))

Heehee! In my defence, J, I would have to say that you'd have been exactly the same!!!! lol!!!

What can I say - beautiful!

That's why she had to come home with me, Scottish! ;)))

I do like your rose but isn't that bud just perfect, full of promise.

Oh yes, Sg!!

And there's another half a dozen really fat ones there too! :)

I think you are going to have to kidnap your man and bring him to Scotland with a van full of plants. I'm sure he could charge double and still be cheap.

Well.....he's not actually sober very often...
...but perhaps that's just the time to catch him in a moment of weakness!!! :))

LOL he would love a visit to Scotland and our distilleries and real ale breweries.

I think you've cracked the nut there! LOL!!

Mind you it was a French lorry driver who ran my husband off the road and wrote off our car and the police let him go because my husband left the scene of an accident -- in an ambulance. Best leave your happy soul where he is.

Umm...funnily enough, I know exactly that whole scenario, Sg...

...it has happened to two friends of mine (both cars written off)...
...and it very nearly happened outside my garden the day before yesterday. I saw and heard the near-miss... and had to bring the severely shocked lady in for sugary coffee! And that was just the local milk collecting tanker on a minor road...

I hope your husband wasn't badly injured?

We thought it was because the Frenchman was driving on the wrong side of the road but it sounds like they make a habit of it in France too. Thank goodness OH was not badly hurt but he was very shocked. He got jambed between a steel mesh fence and the lorry 15 feet off the road. A couple saw the accident and phoned for the emergency services. The ambulance arrived first and having helped my husband out of the car insisted on carting him off to hospital before the police arrived. The couple had to go and pick up their children from school so also left and nobody got their details. I hope it has not put your lady driver off driving. Its awful that we have to be grateful that we survive an accident. As soon as my husband areed that he had fully comp. insurance the police were not interested in contacting the other driver again.

French lorry drivers tend to drive in the middle of the road here. The roads are very narrow and there are lots of blind bends. And the milk tankers just want to get their round done as quickly as possible.

In one of the accidents I mentioned (it was the wife of my metal-working friend involved), the lorry didn't even stop as he was already round the bend and wasn't even aware of what had happened! She was in the ditch by then! Luckily unhurt, but like your husband, very shaken and then had terrible problems with the insurance company.

Insurance companies are first class when taking your cash but less good when it comes to claims. They wrote off our car although my husband wanted to keep it and a month later he saw it for sale in a car dump as an accident damaged repairable. Makes you wonder what is on the road. It is very necessary to read the small print. They say you have to insure for their minimum car value which might be £10,000 but then say if the repair will cost more than the book value the lower figure is all they are prepared to pay out. They did tell us if he had told them it was a cherished model they would have allowed him to keep it but with less of a pay out. My son's car was written off by an American. He had two witnesses and fully comp insurance. In that case we had it insured as a cherished model and he was allowed to keep it and got the write off value minus £10. The trouble is finding out all the intricacies of how to use insurance. We have not had many problems with insurance companies who are only trying to ensure you are not trying to con them.

Ooooooh, I love that one!

I think I like her even more than the one I got last time!! :)